Prof. JONATHAN STORKEY

BIOGRAPHY

Jon is an agro-ecologist working at the interface of fundamental functional ecology and applied agricultural science, with a focus on reconciling crop production with biodiversity by integrating the ecosystem functions of cropped and un-cropped land. He is internationally recognised for advancing the application of trait-based approaches to the assembly and functioning of arable plant communities and has been PI or CoI on a range of interdisciplinary projects from a variety of funding sources, including BBSRC Responsive mode, NERC, Defra and EU. Recent work that he has led includes modelling the potential to reduce herbicide use in integrated weed management systems (EU H2020), quantifying the contribution of cropping system diversification to sustainable food production in sub-saharan Africa (GCRF) and designing multifunctional plant communities using relationships between traits and ecosystem function (Defra LINK).

Jon is Co-PI on the joint research council funded, National Capability, AgZero+, which aims to reconcile a transition to net zero agriculture with productivity and farmland biodiversity in partnership with UK-CEH. He sits on the committee overseeing the management of the Classical Experiments at Rothamsted, is a co-sponsor of Park Grass and Broadbalk and leads on the management of a new Long-Term cropping systems experiment, studying different components of regenerative agriculture.